Bibliograph

Crude democracy, natural resource wealth and political regimes, Thad Dunning

Type

Label

Crude democracy, natural resource wealth and political regimes, Thad Dunning

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crude democracy

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

311622639

Responsibility statement

Thad Dunning

Series statement

Cambridge studies in comparative politicsCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

natural resource wealth and political regimes

Summary

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through different mechanisms; an understanding of these different mechanisms can help elucidate when either the authoritarian or democratic effects of resource wealth will be relatively strong. Exploiting game-theoretic tools and statistical modeling as well as detailed country case studies and drawing on fieldwork in Latin America and Africa, this book builds and tests a theory that explains political variation across resource-rich states. It will be read by scholars studying the political effects of natural resource wealth in many regions, as well as by those interested in the emergence and persistence of democratic regimes.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Does oil promote democracy? -- The foundations of rentier states -- Resource rents and the political regime -- Statistical tests on rents and the regime -- The democratic effect of rents -- Rentier democracy in comparative perspective -- Theoretical extensions -- Conclusion: whither the resource curse?

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